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While the
UK Government's blue-print for corporation tax reform was put
forward in June 2010, key
elements of the reform programme
have become much clearer during
the course of the Summer
of 2011. The long awaited
detailed and extensive consultation documents on the
reform...

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This week,
the three federal banking agencies and the
SEC approved for comment a
proposed regulation implementing Section 619 of the
Dodd-Frank Act, more generally known as the
'Volcker Rule.' The 298-page proposal
has yet to
be published in the Federal
Register, but the...

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The proposals
made by the
EU Commission on 28 September
2011 regarding an EU directive
on a common
system of financial transaction taxation in the
27 Member States of the
EU have been
debated widely in the three
weeks since they were presented.
The presentation of the proposed...

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On 19 October 2011, the European Commission (the
"Commission") published a proposal to fund €50 billion worth of investment in
the European Union's ("EU") transport, energy, and digital networks for the
period from 2014 to 2020, with a view to strengthening...

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Under the
headline "More responsible businesses can foster more
growth in Europe", the European
Commission (the "Commission") unveiled proposals for directives
to amend several legislative measures on 25
October 2011, including a directive
to amend the Transparency...